blue jays

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client: QuADA

location: Esher, UK

project team: Barlow Henley Architects & Fenton Holloway Engineers

scope of works / project brief: New 5-bedroom home with swimming pool within a Grade 2 listed Vanburgh garden wall.

Blue Jays is a contemporary country house on Esher’s Claremont Estate.

It is 13,000 sqft with 5 bedrooms and a pool. Its driveway once formed part of Kinfauns, George Harrison’s former house and its original gate featuring fan graffiti has been re-used.

The house is set in a listed 2-storey walled garden and is planned in a cruciform shape around a central atria.

The shape of the building forms four individual courtyards, each with its own purpose and character.

The house was a UK Property Awards winner in 2014.